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Learning Google Apps Script

By : Ramalingam Ganapathy
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Learning Google Apps Script

By: Ramalingam Ganapathy

Overview of this book

Google Apps Script is a cloud-based scripting language based on JavaScript to customize and automate Google applications. Apps Script makes it easy to create and publish add-ons in an online store for Google Sheets, Docs, and Forms. It serves as one single platform to build, code, and ultimately share your App on the Web store. This book begins by covering the basics of the Google application platform and goes on to empower you to automate most of the Google applications. You will learn the concepts of creating a menu, sending mails, building interactive web pages, and implementing all these techniques to develop an interactive Web page as a form to submit sheets You will be guided through all these tasks with plenty of screenshots and code snippets that will ensure your success in customizing and automating various Google applications This guide is an invaluable tutorial for beginners who intend to develop the skills to automate and customize Google applications
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning Google Apps Script
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating an employee timesheet application


From the knowledge and experience gathered by creating the preceding applications, you can create this full blown timesheet application. This application can be used in an organization or company to log employees, worked hours in a day or shift. The daily attendance data will be backed in the Backup Sheet for future reference.

Create a new spreadsheet with a Sheet named EmployeesList and populate it with employee names. All these names will be listed as a dropdown automatically in the user interface.

Create another Sheet named TimeSheet and arrange the column headers as shown in the following screenshot. Ensure columns C, D, E, and F are formatted as date, otherwise date may be shown as epoch number. Leave column A blank as it will be used by the script to mark the status of a shift such as sb (shift begin), bb (break begin), be (break end), and se (shift end).

Create another Sheet with the name Backup, which is used to back up every day's shift data...